A college professor in New Jersey is claiming that his 380 million-year-old fossils ended up in a landfill due to negligence ...

The lawsuit alleges that William Paterson University's unpaid invoices led to around 200 marine fossils being discarded in ...

The growth and lifespan of Parvancorina minchami, small anchor-shaped animals that lived on the seafloor about 550 million ...

In a lawsuit filed earlier this month, paleontologist Martin Becker accuses William Paterson University in Wayne of ...

An environmental science professor and paleontologist has spent his career collecting Devonian Age marine invertebrate ...

The irreplaceable fossils got intercepted in transit and ended up in a landfill in Tennessee, according to the lawsuit.

A North Jersey professor says the university mailroom failed to pay UPS, leading to 200 fossils being dumped and his life's ...

Becker has spent hundreds of hours collecting Devonian Age, approximately 380 million years old, marine invertebrate fossils. A collection of millions-of-years-old fossils ended up in the landfill ...

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The collection included marine invertebrate fossils from Devonian Age, a time that predates dinosaurs. It is sometimes called the “age of fishes” as the planet was 85% covered in ocean.

"Alongside its exhibits, EFM will include a unique fossil dig experience ... which hail from more than 100 species of prehistoric marine and land animals. "There aren’t many opportunities ...